Staff or handle connection



T. A. ENGLISH. STAFF 0R HANDLE CONNECTION.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22,1920.

Patented May I6, 1922.

i STTES THOMAS A. ENGLISH, 0F NORTH ALBANY, NEW YORK.

STAFF OB HANDLE CONNECTION.

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. ENGLISH, a citizen of the United States,residing at North Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a. Staff or HandleConnection, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a staff or handle connection or attachmentparticularly ap plicable to brushes but capable of application tosimilar articles.

A prime object is to provide an exceedingly simple, efficientand lowestpriced article for this purpose.

Another object is to provide a means of this character which may bereadily and automatically adjusted without removing the brush from thefloor.

A further object is `to provide the means essentially of two metallicparts pivoted to gether, such parts having interfitting means and onepart engagingthe other at thei periphery to relieve the pivot of unduestrain.

`With the above and additional objects which will hereinafter appear, inview, the invention has been embodied in one preferred form as will nowbe described and illustrated in accompanying drawings.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a scrub brush andhandle connected by means of my improvements, and

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional View through the improvements.

Referring specially to the drawings, a handle or staff 3 is provided foran article such as a scrub brush 4. Scrub brush 4 is to be taken as adiagrammatic illustration since the invention is applicable to manysimilar articles.

The improvements essentially comprise two yieldable metallic members Aand B each having a plate or disk like portion 5 through the center ofwhich a rivet 6 passes and is secured to connect the members. Disks 5have depressions arranged inthe path of a circle concentric with thepivot so as to provide a series of projections T on one of the disks toenter a series of depressions 8 on the other disk.

Section A has a tang 9 through which screws 10 may be passed to fastensame to the head of brush 4. Tang 9 connects to the disk of thissection4 through a post 1l,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 16, 19220 Application ledJune 22, 1920.

Serial No. 390,822.

integral with the tang and post. The edge or periphery of the disk ofthis section A is concentric with the pivot, as at 12.

Section B has a stud 13 bent outwardly at a portion 14 to rest on. andfollow wall 12, in order to relieve the pivot of undue strain. Stud 13is integral with the disk of this section and also with a ferrule 15which receives the staff 3 as shown.

In use, the brush is operated over the floor through movement of thehandle or staff 3 in the usual manner. Vhenever it is necessary tochange the angle of the staff, 'the device does not have to be liftedfrom the Hoor but the handle may be simply depressed so that the platesmay move relatively on the pivot 6 with the projections 7 moving out ofthe depressions 8, advancing one depression at a time and clippingthereinto, due to the yieldable metal of which they are constructed.Parties of various heights may use this article with ease as the handlemay be adjusted to any desired angle in the manner stated. I/Vhendesired the adjustment may be facilitated by holding the brush 4 to thelicor by the aid of the foot. Since the portion 14 engages and rides onthe edge 12, the pivot is effectively relieved of undue strain.

Since merely the preferred embodiment has been illustrated anddescribed, changes in the details falling within the spirit and scope ofthe appended claim may be made.

I claim A staff or handle connection, in combination with a brush, asleeve secured to the handle having an extension, a disk formed integralwith the extension and offset there from, an annular series of recessesformed in said disk, a plate secured to the brush head having a verticalextension, a disk formed integral therewith of the same diameter as thefirst mentioned disk. depressions arranged in the second mentioned diskforming projections fitting in the recesses of the first mentioned disk,and a pivot pin connecting the said disks, the latter having sufficientresiliency to permit adjustment of the handle upon application of force.

In testimony whereof, I have affixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS A. ENGLISH. Witnesses W. M. F ISK, RAYMOND CARRIER.

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